Let there be lights] In the Hebrew the Verbe is of the singular number, the Noune of the plurall: So also Exodus 8:17. So there were lice, in the Hebrew, there was lice, lat. fuit pediculi: the like Enallage of number elsewhere. to divide the day from the night] Heb. to divide betweene the day, and betweene the night. By day is meant the artificiall day from the Sun-rising to the going downe of it; though in the concluding approbation of each dayes worke it be put for a day naturall consisting of twentie foure howres. signes] Of the weather as the Sunne when it setteth with a red skie fore-sheweth a faire day to follow, Matthew 16:2. and the Moone according to the varietie of its colour and figure signifieth a difference of weather; and both of them by their Eclipses betoken the temper of the ensuing season, at least for some naturall qualities and events; and starres shining cleere in the winter signifie frosts. Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 18. cap. 35. By their naturall and ordinary operation, and by an extraordinary and supernaturall sometimes they import terrible Comminations to the nether-world, as Luke 21:25-26. Acts 2:19-20. whereat the wicked throughout the world, Psalms 65:8. not the godly, Jeremiah 10:2. Luke 21:28. may be afraid; which yet giveth no warrant to the presumption of Prognosticators, or judiciarie Astrologers to fore-tell the fortunes of men, or fates of Civill States by the Starres; or to make any prediction of any other supernaturall events from the face of the heavens, or the impression of the Planets, or from the temper, figure, colour, or postue of the Celestiall bodies; for such Arts of Divination are condemned by the Word of God, Deuteronomy 18:10. Isaiah 47:13. and for seasons] Chiefly those specified, Genesis 8:22. but withall they conduce for distinction of times, when to worke, and when to rest; when to sow, and when to plant, and prune, and reape; and when to doe other affaires with best conveniencie and advantage both for Naturall and Civill good; and they served also for the difference of sacred seasons; as for the Sabbath, the Feast of Pentecost, New Moones, &c.